Can't crop imported image in Affinity Photo

[GaryV]

Searched and can't find an answer, or at least, the suggestions don't work. Simple workflow, done hundreds of times in Pixelmator, isn't happening in AP.

• Canvas is 2048 x 2048
• I drag over images of varying sizes (all larger than that) onto their own layers.
• I scale until I get the portion of the image I want to show in my square canvas.
• Select cropping tool, hit apply.
• Nothing changed. Imported image is still with image outside the canvas, so file is bloated unnecessarily.

In Pixelmator, I dragged the cropping tool over the canvas, marquee shows, hit apply, and the rest of the image outside the canvas is gone. This is desired effect I want, but can't figure out how to do it in AP.

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[carl123]

If an image is larger than the canvas then Layer > Rasterise and Trim will trim the image to the canvas size. Unfortunately, you have to select and do this to each image Layer separately.

If you have totally finished all editing on the image you can also do Document > Flatten but this is highly destructive and results in just one single layer but it is quicker and will give the "smallest" file size possible

[GaryV]

Perfect. That works, and I work each image a layer at a time, so that's no issue. Thanks!